Julie Fabre, France’s coach at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, was
named head coach. Fabre, who swam for the French national team for six years,
helped lead France to a fifth-place team finish at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Most
of the U.S. national-squad members competed for the U.S. Junior National Team in
2013, highlighted by a team gold medal and
several individual medals at the UANA Pan American Championships in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in August.